2006 CPR Emergency Nursing 
Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
APRIL 8, 2014
The lips of the dead and the ‘kiss of life’: the contemporary deathbed and the aesthetic of CPR. Photo from which, by kind permission of Allen Press, shown above of early mouth-to-airway devices. Probably only Internet-accessible extant photo of the Gordon Airway. O’Donnell, C. Gibson, A. T., & Davis, P. Tercier, J. Waters, R.
Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ
MARCH 27, 2015
factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.
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